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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/property-factors-scotland-act-2011-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-order-2012/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/149",
  "legislation_title": "The Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/property-factors-scotland-act-2011-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-order-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional",
  "text": "A person is not guilty of an offence under section 12(1) of the Act (operating as a property factor without registration) where—\n(a) the person is not operating as a property factor on 1st July 2012, but is so operating on 1st October 2012 having made an application for entry in the register; and\n(b) the application has not yet been determined by the Scottish Ministers under section 4 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The register of property factors for the purposes of Part 1 (see section 1) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/149/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:13.654529+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}